Home(s) for the Holidays

One of our favorite holiday traditions is decorating gingerbread houses. While I'm not certain that the Jews in Biblical times glued cookies together and stuck candy atop, it's something that Lily and I cannot resist.


Over the years this activity has taken on a role of increasing importance. This year, for example, we've already decorated two houses and have one more house and one gingerbread train (oh la la!) in the queue.


To help make this year's decorating that much more festive, we invited a few little girls from Lily's new school over for some gingerbread fun recently. And what fun it was! The invitations should have come with a "sugar high" disclosure, what with the 10 pounds of icing and mountains of candy we had on hand.


The extra "icing on the cake," or cookie at it may be, were the princess costumes that the girls changed in to mere seconds after they walked in the door. While I don't have any pictures of that, rest assured that Cinderella (2), Belle, Sleeping Beauty and Tinkerbell make a mean gingerbread house!

The girls were as adorable as the houses. And, yes, I know they're all blonde. Not sure what's up with that. Come to think of it, ALL of Lily's girlsfriends are blonde. Huh...